Today we found a fat envelope in our mailbox. It’s from the “Bevölkerungsamt der Stadt Zerneve”. YES! It’s Serse’s birth certificate! It must be Serse’s birth certificate! FOR SURE it’s Serse’s birth certificate! It’s not. But allow me to build the suspense with a little preamble. Yesterday I decided to call the Zivilsthing office in… Continue reading Something Is Moving!
Month: March 2023
Timeline Updates
I did a couple of phone calls today. There is good news and bad news. The good news is that it seems that a valid national ID (passport, ID card) is not required for registering Serse’s residence at the Kreisbüro, only the birth certificate is. This means that, as soon as we receive the birth… Continue reading Timeline Updates
Paternity Leave
In Switzerland, paternity leave is a fun thing. Women are entitled to (usually) 14 weeks of leave. Fathers, on the other hand, way less, and this “privilege” is still deeply divisive among Swiss politics because, you know, men have to go to work, women have to stay home and raise children. All this only started… Continue reading Paternity Leave
